Jesus God.
February 10, 2006 – 03:06So I decided to get frisky and give something besides Debian a try on my Linux box at home. Due to the allegiance that a lot of my co-workers (past and present) have for Gentoo, I picked it. I will say that its software retrieval and installation utility, emerge, is pretty cool. But if you plan on installing anything other than the base system on a machine with a 233MHz CPU (as I was) you’d better have a shitload of patience and infinite time on your hands. I installed nmap using emerge, and it took at least 5 hours. I say “at least” because 5 hours into it I had to leave the apartment and it finished sometime while I was gone. I was actually planning to install an X server, too, but quickly realized that I would probably be moving out of my apartment before one was done compiling.
Gentoo, we may meet again sometime in the future – for instance, if I happen to come across a quad-CPU, freon cooled, server-grade system. Until then, Debian Etch and the safety of my pre-compiled binaries it is.
5 Responses to “Jesus God.”
I don’t get it
By Erik on Feb 10, 2006
*ouch* Yea, that’ll hurt.
By Damon on Feb 10, 2006
We’re rootin’ for ya!
By Mike D on Feb 12, 2006
I’m currently in the process of installing it on my old Sun Blade 100. I discovered that the 2.4 kernel doesn’t support CIFS (which I need to connect to shares on my Win 2k3 box), and gentoo doesn’t *officially* support 2.6 on 64-bit SPARC yet. But I got 2.6.15 up and running anyway, and it seems to be kosher. We’ll see how long xorg takes to compile. I’ll BABAI later.
By Bad Andy on Feb 12, 2006
that’s what you get from thinking of straying from your master… all praise Debian and it’s apt-y goodness.
By Paul on Feb 13, 2006